Male Armor : The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture /

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"In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America's late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual expe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Jon Robert, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soldat > Motiv
Literatur
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Krieg > Motiv
War in literature.
Men.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Masculinite > États-Unis.
Hommes > États-Unis.
Masculinity > United States.
Men > United States.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : soldier's heart
  • "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture
  • The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity
  • Envelope, please : the metonymic male
  • Winning this time : the war that wasn't
  • Conclusion : time warp.

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